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29James Risser's Contemporary Hermeneutics: The Way-Making Community of Those Who Are StrangePhilosophy Today 58 (1): 97-105. 2014.This article is an interpretive analysis of James Risser’s book The Life of Understanding: A Contemporary Hermeneutics. I focus on the key elements of Risser’s notion of community and what I call his hermeneutics of the strange and foreign. The article pays particular attention to some of the most important themes in Risser’s book: aesthetics and the flash of beauty; language and the poetic word; the transmission of tradition; the movement of Ruinanz and the circulation of life; weaving. Overall…Read more
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3The Hermeneutic Circle is Broken: On the Circulation of Being in Jean-Luc Nancy’s Hermeneutic PhilosophyInternationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 2011.
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1Beyond Logos: Naming Difference in Plato’s TheaetetusInternationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 2005.
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61Heidegger's Interpretation of Aristotle: The Finitude of Being. Review of "Aristoteles Metaphysik 0 1-3" by Martin Heidegger (review)Research in Phenomenology 14 (1): 249. 1984.
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132The Parting of Being: On Creation and Sharing in Nancy’s Political OntologyResearch in Phenomenology 40 (3): 295-308. 2010.I expose facets of Nancy's notion of being singular plural. Nancy's political ontology overcomes the metaphysical dualism of theory and practice by thinking the space of the between as primary. Nancy's treatment of the event of creation and the presence of the divine rethink meta-physical notions of origin and God in a way that emphasizes the parting of unity and the plurality of the world. Nancy thinks the everyday and the existential together by affirming the importance of curiosity and wonder…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |